you can see the premiere of the next gps special "beyond the manhunts, how to stop terror." it's a deep look inside american intelligence and how it can best keep us safe. don't miss it. that's friday night at 11:00 p.m. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. hello, i'm fredricka whitfield. a look at our top stories this hour. syria is blaming israel for an attack on military research center and a syrian official is calling it a declaration of war. in northern california a fun night out has taken a tragic turn. last night a fire ripped through a limousine carrying nine women. more than half of the passengers didn't make it out alive. details straight ahead.

but first, authorities are right now again searching the apartment of boston suspect tamelan tsarnaev. investigators found explosive residue in tsarnaev's cambridge, massachusetts, apartment. susan candiotti joins us live from boston. what is different about this search now? >> reporter: the fbi isn't saying what they are looking for, but they do have people back at the house where tsarnaev lived. that's the older of the two brothers, who our sources tell us, is believed to have constructed the bomb in that apartment where he lived with his wife and young child. as we have also reported quoting sources, bomb residue was found in at least three areas. the kitchen sink, the kitchen table and in the bath tub. so as to whether they are going back looking for more evidence of bomb residue, we don't know, but they are in there looking for more evidence and they have

people wearing hazmat suits that are conducting that search right now. crime scene technicians. we'll wait to hear more about that and how long that search will be going on, fred. meantime today, i interviewed in a very rare interview, the father of one of the exchange students from kazakhstan who met with his son in this country in jail. his son, you'll recall, is tazhayakov. his son ended that interview with him on friday. he said his son denied any direct role in the bombings, and in fact, he is not charged with that. he is charged with obstructing justice. in other words, he's accused of trying to hide evidence involved in this case.

specifically, the fbi said he threw out at the very least, a backpack filled with fireworks emptied of gun power, and had vaseline, threw it in a dumpster and the fbi ended up finding it in a land fill. both men are charged with that. another student held on to the laptop connected to dzhokhar, but the father says his son is not convinced yet that dzhokhar had something to do with it. and insists that his son cooperated fully with the fbi and when he was told they were looking for him, he stayed in the apartment. when they raided it on friday, april the 19th. he has a hearing coming up next week. there is one other person who has a hearing tomorrow. one of the other students who is also charged with lying to

investigators. his attorney tells us he will be asking via court papers that he, the american student, be released on bond because he doesn't pose a flight risk, he won't run away. also he is asking for a gps monitoring system on him, that he has no danger to this community. it's a busy day. >> it sure is indeed. thanks so much for all those updates, susan candiotti in boston. on the west coast, a night out turns tragic when a fire breaks out in a stretch limousine carrying a group of women. it happened last night on a bridge near san francisco. five of the women were killed unable to escape the burning car. nick valencia is following this story. this is horrible. one has to figure out why is it half of them could get out of the vehicle and the other half couldn't. >> we understand from the chp there were good samaritans at the scene pulling people from the scene that could explain why half survived. new information we learned a short time ago from the california highway patrol is

that the five that were in there -- let's step back a little bit. the fire where it started, it was believed perhaps it started inside in the passenger area. chp tell us they believe it started in the rear, in the trunk or underneath the vehicle. i called the coroner's office to i.d. the five killed. they were so badly burned it could take several days before they are i.d.ed. they were all northern california residents, all under the age of 48. part of the investigation of the chp will be trying to figure out where they were going to and where they were coming from. it was a night out, saturday night. spontaneously burst into flames. >> i understand they are trying to figure out what was so combustible, why did this vehicle go up in flames. was it sudden or an issue of a slow burn? any of the survivors, have they

talked about smelling something burning and then it was out of control, any details like that? >> according to witnesses, it did burst suddenly. it suddenly combust. you saw the pictures there. it's just very telling that flame coming from the rear of the limousine we asked the chp if they can get us in contact with the limousine company. they don't have that information. there are questions that will be posed to this limousine company that took this group of women for a saturday night out of fun. it didn't end that way. >> lots of questions. nick valencia, thanks very much. we'll check back with you. a youth soccer referee was allegedly punched in the head by a player. the injury later put him in a coma and now the ref is dead. ricardo patio passed away in a hospital in utah. a 17-year-old player punched the ref after getting a yellow card in a game last weekend.

at first portillo seemed okay, but doctors found he had serious head injuries. the family says they are devastated. the teen player is in juvenile detention. he was charged with aggravated assault, but he could now face more charges now that the ref died. later today at 5:00 eastern time, we'll be talking to a veteran soccer ref who talks about growing tensions on playing fields. in syria, explosions lit up the sky over damascus. syrian officials are blaming israel for attacking the military research facility. this report comes after israel allegedly carried out an air strike against syria last week. in an exclusive interview with cnn,ing syria's deputy foreign minister says the attack represents an alliance between islamic terrorists and israel. >> this is a declaration of war.

this is not something that is strange, but we deal with this on several occasions. we retaliated the way we want and the retaliation was always painful to israel and they will suffer again. >> the israeli military is not commenting on the report, but they have deployed two rocket interception batteries to northern israel. starting today, israel will not allow civil aviation flights to use air space over some parts of the country. israel says it is not mettling in sierra's war but protecting itself from hezbollah militants. >> back in the u.s. there is a glimmer of hope on the fire lines in southern california today. rain is in the forecast. fire has scorched 28,000 acres, but it is more than half contained right now. thousands of homes are still threatened. the forecast calls for isolated thunderstorms bringing with it

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on thursday the house homeland security will hold hearings about the bombing in boston. they want to look ahead. what can be done to prevent another potential attack? congressman cedric richmond of louisiana joins us from new orleans. good to see you. congressman richard hudson who represents north carolina is joining us from washington. good to see you, as well. you both sit on the homeland security committee. i want you to listen first, however, to what senator dick durbin had to say on cnn earlier today. he believes one answer to preventing attacks is in the pending immigration legislation. >> it's hard to believe 12 years after /11 we are having this conversation. there is not enough coordination between these different agencies so we know someone should not have been readmitted to the united states.

our bill addresses that directly. we have 11, up to 11 million people coming forward to register. we know who they are. that is going to make us more secure. i mentioned the border security. we are also dealing with this whole exit/entry visa issue and having verification in the work place. at the end of the day, immigration reform starts to do things that should have been done long ago and makes it an absolute priority of this government. >> congressman hudson, is he right? does immigration play a role in preventing another potential boston type bombing? st. >> absolutely. that is a big part of it. especially when you look at one of the three friends of dzhokhar tsarnaev who was arrested. we are finding now, at least there are news reports he overstayed a tourist visa. there is a prime example where we need to do a better job tracking the people here in this country who may overstay visas. frankly, when you look at the

illegal population in this country, over 40% are here because they overstayed a visa. >> congressman richmond, how do you see it? ? >> well, i think we do have a problem with people overstaying their visa, but when you talk about self-radicalization in this incident, i don't think immigration reform is necessarily the key to curing it. we have a number of issues in the country in terms of people in self-radicalization and the views that they hold. i would not hold immigration reform out to the public as being a cure-all for instances like this because i still think we live in a dangerous society. we can't cut homeland security. and the sequester plays a part in it also. i think it's a little bit more comprehensive than senator durbin makes it appear. >> congressman richmond, what questions will you have this week when we hear that russian

officials asked the fbi to investigate the older brother but it didn't continue on tamelan tsarnaev's return from chechnya. what questions do you want to pose this week? >> the questions i want to pose this week are those you just raised, which is why wasn't he continued to be investigated? what did they look into? what did they find? why did they stop? all those things. the problem i think we'll have is we won't have the proper officials there to respond because it's still an ongoing investigation. the fbi, the cia and everybody will probably not want to comment on it. part of it, and we in congress, have to do is, we probably need to let them take the investigation and let it run its course, but we do have a role as oversight to make sure that these type of things don't happen. there was a -- we let the american people down this time and we need to figure out why and make sure it doesn't happen

again. >> who is invited to answer some of these questions, if just as the congressman just mentioned, the investigation is ongoing. perhaps cia and fbi officials would not necessarily be available for this type of hearing, this q&a at this juncture? >> we've got representatives from those agencies who will be testifying. i don't have a witness list in front of me. it is important we begin looking into this. we have an important role of oversight. there are a lot of questions that need to be asked, including did these brothers act alone? what were the circumstances that led tamelan to be radicalized? we need to look at the information sharing that goes on between the agencies. there may be changes that we need to make in the law that when you look at how information shared among agencies. frankly, the biggest piece is we need to look at what information is shared with local and state law enforcement. are we doing a good enough job from homeland security standpoint of sharing

information? >> weren't they some of the same questions that came out of the 9/11 commission? do you feel satisfied that the resolutions, what was learned from that commission and those studies was put into place or simply ignored, which left gaping holes for something like this to happen? >> i think we learned a lot of lessons from 9/11. i think one of the biggest lessons was you have these big bureaucracies that stove pipe their information and don't do a good job in sharing. i think we made good improvements. in homeland security, we created a monster sized agency and tasked them with coordinating. there's still a lot of work to be done. when you talk about issues like the immigration entry and exit information, you also look at the counterterrorism center and what kind of information they're looking at. is that information being shared? is there a nexus that needs to be there that isn't there? those are the questions we ought to be asking to see what lessons

we can learn to improve, continue to get better. >> congressman hudson, congressman richmond, thank you so much for both of your time. later on we'll be talking to two of the original members of that 9/11 commission to get their take on what may have potentially gone wrong and what was resolved post 9/11. thank you, gentlemen. he came back from the back of the pack to win at the kentucky derby. find out why this win was extra special for the people of kentucky. [ female announcer ] the only patch for the treatment

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it was a soggy race and a real nail-biter, the run for the roses, the kentucky derby. >> on a very rainy day, a favorite finally wins the

kentucky derby. it happens to be a kentucky born and kentucky bred horse. orb rallied from the back of the pack to win the 13th running of the kentucky derby. it's a first for both jockey and trainer. orb is running red hot right now, having won five races in a row including the florida derby and the kentucky derby. >> this race is really special. i see all these people here that know me. it's really unbelievable to see it. like right now, you know, did i win the kentucky derby? it's like a dream. >> the way it's going to change my life is i'm not going to worry about it any more. i worried about it for a while. i might not let anybody know that, but inside that thought was always there. >> some other notable finishes, the only female jockey running in the race, rosy naprovnik

finished fifth, gary stevens finished sixth and goldencents finished in 15th place. now on to baltimore and preakness. if orb can win there, we'll be one win away from our first triple crown winner in 35 years, joe carter, cnn, louisville, kentucky. a strong jobs report on friday pushed the dow up past the 15,000 mark for the first time ever. some investors have questions about what's next for the markets and the economy. among them, warren buffett. he is one of the world's richest men and advisor to president obama. our poppy harlow caught up with buffet and asked him about the markets and the economy. >> i talked to warren buffett here at the berkshire hathaway annual shareholder meeting in omaha, nebraska, where tens of thousands of faithful investors flock to hear from the oracle of

omaha himself. we talked specifically about the stock market. given the record high we've seen, does he think the market is overvalued right now? he said as long-term investor, he doesn't look at what the market is going to do in week, a month or a year. he did note that because of current fed policy, because of these low interest rates, it is pushing assets up accredits the board, including stocks. we also talk about jobs and immigration. is there any policy, anything that can be done on the policy side that would increase job creation at a more rapid rate? >> we could apply more fiscal stimulus. whether the -- >> would you support more stimulus? >> the down side of that stimulus would be you don't want to take something that makes you feel extremely good just because of that fact without considering the consequences. i really have no great recommendations in terms of

policy. >> immigration reform is front and center in washington. do you think immigration reform is critical to the economy? what is the impact on this economy if we see immigration reform derailed? does it matter? >> i think immigration reform it derailed, i think people will continue to have great doubts about the efficacy of washington. there is great sentiment for it. i think it probably will pass. exactly in what form, i don't know. >> is there anything specific you think needs to be included in immigration reform in this country? for the economy? >> well, i think net immigration over the lifetime of the country has been an obvious boost to the country. this is a country of immigrants. i think we should be a lot smarter in terms of the quotas we establish. it's crazy not to encourage all kinds of people that can benefit this country by bringing them

over. >> we also talked about income inequality. buffet says he believes the growing gap between rich and poor in this country is having a negative impact on the u.s. economy. at 82 years old, the question of succession, obviously, came up. still no word from buffet though on who will succeed him to run berkshire hathaway. >> thanks, poppy. a driver gets the surprise of his life when he finds a bear, no joke, behind the steering wheel of his pick-up truck. why he videotaped the whole thing instead of running away.

a 6-year-old girl is in critical condition after her teenage brother shot her. it happened in oakland park, florida. police don't know if the 13-year-old shot her by accident or on purpose. they are trying to talk with him. we do know the children were home alone when the shooting happened. cnn affiliate wsvn says the parents may face charges. floyd mayweather jr holds on to his welter weight title. he scored a win last night in las vegas. mayweather says he'll fight five more times then retire. he's undefeated.

his win earned him a guaranteed $32 million. that amount could hit $40 million depending on ticket and pay-per-view sales. congrats to him. and this pretty unbelievable. this story is trending. a man could hardly believe his eyes when he went out to his truck and found this right here. a bear inside. the guy who owns the vehicle grabbed his cell phone and started recording. that's what everybody does these days, right? he didn't sound scared about it. >> got a bear in my truck. he seems friendly. >> no. >> trying to wave at me. he just waved at me. little bear in my truck. >> what? he seems friendly? he's waving at me? this is evan nielsen joining us from reno, nevada.

explain yourself. most people would be terrified to see a black bear in their truck. you were like, oh, cuddly soft. really, tell me your initial reaction. >> well, i'm an outdoors enthusiast. i haven't seen a black bear in the wild since moving to california. so the first thought was it's a beautiful bear in my truck. i want to remember this and get some pictures. he was in the truck. i felt safe outside the truck. he was having his way with my toyota and it got to be quite the scene for a bit in my house. >> now that truck is barely drivable. let me ask you this, how do you think that bear got in your vehicle? do you think it actually opened the car door? was there a window open? what happened? >> the bear definitely opened the door. >> what? >> it's a type of handle that

the doors were not locked, the windows were up, but it's a type of handle -- we saw paw prints and scratch marks on the door. with a little down pressure he could have pulled the door open, and we think once he got in just the pressure of the door getting pushed out just snapped back in on him. >> this is right outside your house in your driveway. was there food in the car or truck or something? why do you suppose this bear wanted in? >> there was no food in the truck. we think he was a young bear. probably the first winter away from mama. just trying to figure out his way the first year, first summer/spring in the area. they go looking for food everywhere. he's just curious. if you found a car you can get into and thought he might find something. >> and he did. so then the wheels were in

motion as you're taking this video and you're marveling at this beautiful black young bear, but then weren't you thinking how am i going to get this bear out of the car? what did you end up doing? what happened after the videotape stopped rolling? >> well, fredericka for the first couple of minutes we were wanting to take pictures and enjoy the moment. quickly, we realized there was this frightened bear and he wanted to get out. we realized we had to -- reality snapped us back into thinking straight. called the -- first of all, i tried to open the door myself to let the bear go and he had done enough damage to the truck that the door didn't open. so i kicked it shut for fear he might lunge out or lunge forward at me. we called truckee police department. they deal with the situation a few times a year.

this he came out and they helped us out and got a little plan together. they were the ones that actually opened the door and set the bear free. >> okay. so the bear went off into the wilderness. the truckee police never thought they would find a bear in your truck. thankfully, everything is okay and you survived the moment. thanks for being with us for sharing your story. i don't know. i don't think i would recommend to other folks to do what you did, to try to open that door and play nice with the bear? keep your distance next time. >> yeah. he was a good-looking bear. just wanted to get as much time with him as i could and be as close to him as i could. if it happened again, probably do it the same way. >> hopefully you're just as quick on rolling that videotape and sharing it with us. thanks very much. i'm glad the bear is okay, as well. you and the bear. >> the bear is okay. >> thanks so much from reno. appreciate it. all the best.

some legal stories want to tackle coming up. jodi arias' future is now up to the jurors. they got an earful of closing arguments on friday. more than seven hours worth. both sides said jody is a liar.

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jodi arias' fate is in the hands of a juror after a four-month long trial full of drama. jurors got the case friday after intense closing arguments. >> reporter: the jury only had about an hour to deliberate on friday before going home for the weekend. they'll be back on monday to continue before they started their deliberations, they sat and listened to more than seven hours of closing arguments. for two days with her life on the line, jodi arias sat and

watched as both sides argued how they believe she killed her ex-boyfriend travis alexander. >> absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, she is a liar. >> reporter: the prosecutor told jurors areas planned the murder driving from northern california to arizona armed with a knife and a stolen gun. he says after having sex with alexander, she attacked him when his guard was down while he was posing for these photos in the shower. >> she knew. she absolutely knew and had already planned it. she knew she was going to kill him. >> reporter: family members of travis alexander broke down while martinez showed crime scene photos showing the brutality of the killing which he was shot in the head and stabbed nearly 30 times. >> he was killed in three different ways. a stab wound to the heart would have killed him. obviously, the slitting of the throat would have killed him and the shot to the face would have killed him.

>> reporter: martinez warned jurors not to believe a word of what jodi arias told them during her 18 days on the witness stand when she claimed she killed alexander in self-defense and can't remember the details because of ptsd. >> why is it you have no memory of stabbing travis? >> i can't really explain why my mind did what it did. >> she's acting the part and she's lying. she is making it all up. she has lied to everybody. it doesn't make any sense. none of it makes any sense as it relates to premeditation. >> reporter: defense lawyer kirk nurmi argued the idea that jodi arias went to see el commander to kill him doesn't make any sense if she planned to kill him she would have done it right away instead of spending the day with him having sex and taking photos. >> she could have shot him right there if that was her plan.

she didn't. doesn't make any sense if this is a premeditated murder. >> reporter: nurmi attacked the victim, travis alexander saying he not only abused arias but was a pedophile. he played a portion of a phone sex tape when he compared arias to a 12-year-old girl. >> you cannot write that to the heat of the moment. that is sick and that is wrong. you can't put any spin on that. >> reporter: combined, both sides argued more than seven hours. prosecutor juan martinez had the last word. >> in this case, trafts victor alexander was slaughtered by this woman, slashed his throat, she stabbed him in the heart and then she shot him in the face and all of that thinking about it in advance. thank you. >> reporter: there are four different verdicts the jury could come back with. two of them are first degree murder verdicts.

if they come back guilty on either one of those, jodi arias is looking at a possible death sentence. second degree murder is also on the table with the potential sentence of 10 to 22 years in prison and there's manslaughter with potential sentence of seven to 21 years. of course, it could also come back not guilty. >> thanks, ted rolands, appreciate that. a horrible plane crash but can provide valuable clues to investigators.

it's a terrifying plane crash caught on video. a private cargo plane crashed near bagram air force base in afghanistan. you see the videotape there. want to bring in john nance. as we look at this -- it's just horrific and it just looks like slow motion, but that's realtime seeing this giant cargo plane flying and suddenly just kind of take a dive and slowly soar and then crash to the ground. it's difficult to know at this point what happened because they're still investigating. just from your vantage point as an expert, what do you think happened? was this an engine failure issue? >> no. i doubt seriously it will have anything to do with engine failure here. i think what we are looking at

is the fact -- i say fact, speculation that the cargo in the airplane probably shifted as it rotated to take off. that happened before a few times in history. if that happens and enough stuff moves back in the airplane, it can move it out of the center of gravity envelope. in that case it's going to be difficult, if not impossible for the crew to keep the nose down, keep enough forward air speed over the wings. the problem is what you saw in this video, if there is not enough air speed over the wings you basically become a big piece of medal. >> this is a civilian flight. i've been on military cargo planes and they strap everything down for that very reason to prevent any large cargo shipment, vehicles from shifting on that plane. wouldn't that be the case even if this were a civilian cargo flight? >> you can absolutely guarantee the load masters on this had everything down or in other words had it tied down. the fact is that if one thing

breaks away, a chain breaks and a cascade starts, one vehicle goes into another which goes into another, there are many different scenarios, but what we see here is evidence of an airplane that cannot get its nose down no matter what the crew does. that's why they stalled and ended up literally falling out of the sky. >> in general, this is a conflict region. this air base bagram is still very much in a hot zone. the pilots generally try to climb as quickly as they can for safety reasons. can this potentially play into whether there is a shift of the cargo into the plane that, scenario you already painted? >> it could easily do that. if the crew pulled the nose up high enough to get a good clean getaway, as rapidly as they could, to climb as rapidly as they could, it's going to create a greater deck angle. that would play into the hands of a situation where there was a weak chain or weak link somewhere.

this isn't definitive. it's all speculation at this point. we will get the voice recorder and flight recorder. i do think that is what we are going to find. >> jim nance, thank you. tragically, seven crew members were killed in that crash. will israeli air strikes in syria compel the u.s. to get involved? talking to candy crawly. ♪

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president obama gave the commencement address at ohio state university today. he told them they should not give up when they fail at something because nothing worth doing happens overnight. the president has close ties to

the university. he held a rally there to kick off his re-election campaign a year ago today. he also got an honorary doctorate. to the mideast where with events are ratcheting up tensions in the region. today another israeli air strike rocked a damascus suburb hitting a scientific research center. an act a syrian official calls a declaration of war by israel. this after thursday's israeli air strikes in that country and there is a suspicion of use of chemical weapons in syria. candy crawly hosts cnn's "state of the union." will this put more pressure on the white house to do something about the ongoing civil war? congressman peter king was on your show earlier and he urged caution. >> i have real concerns. so much time has gone by and to, unfortunately, to a large extent al qaeda elements have a lot of

control within the rebel movement. my concern is by arming the rebels, we could be strengthening al qaeda. whatever arming we do, and obviously assad is evil and it's in everyone's interest he go. we have to make sure the arms are not going to end up in the position of al qaeda supporters. nor should al qaeda be in position to take over this movement. >> are we closer to what president obama said would be the quote/unquote game changer to get involved in syria? will there be pressure for the u.s. to get involved? >> on the game changer, that was the use of chemical weapons by syrian president bashar assad. that the u.s. believes has happened. the response from the u.s. from the obama administration has been, we're still looking at it. we're not completely sure of the intelligence whether it is true that there has been some use of

chemical weapons, but their first move is going to be toward gathering up a coalition. this is not something the president wants to get involved in. partly for some of the reasons you heard congressman king talk about. that is that even though there has been pressure all along, john mccain, lindsey graham, a lot of folks says the u.s. needs to arm these rebels. as this war has continued for almost two years, it has gotten more complicated. it served as this magnet for al qaeda operatives. right now the groups with the biggest success do happen to be tied to al qaeda. so it become s dicier for the u.s. to supply weapons. the bar is high if you have to guarantee they won't fall into al qaeda hands and after the war is over, al qaeda won't be in charge. i don't think there is a president who will act hastily. he needs folks within the region to lead this effort. they left open the possibility

they might arm the syrians, but they waited this long. i don't think this is something they are just going to jump into. >> candy crawly, thanks so much. host of "state of the union." >> thanks, fred. it's official you should giggle big at least once today. people all over the world are doing that. [ male announcer ] when you wear dentures you may not know

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it reduces stress and improves the immune system. agreed. good chuckles, good medicine. i'm fredricka whitfield. thanks for joining us. i'll see you back here 4:00 eastern time when we'll have a close-up look at prince harry who is paying a special visit to the u.s. this week. right now time for "your money." a recovery? yes. is it enough for the millions of americans still reeling from the recession? i'm christine romance, welcome to "your money." 165,000 jobs added in april. 173,000 jobs a month on average over the last year. that's enough to bring the unemployment rate down to 7.5% in april. that's the lowest it's been since december 2008. most months we see the unemployment rate fall because people are falling out of the labor force. that's not the case in april for the first time in a long time. the unemployment rate fell because people went back to work. >> monthly revisions reveal more than 150,000 more jobs were added in the